It looks like Phone Mania is spreading wider and wider among the top IT-companies. Next XPhone announced to be created by Intel. It is supposed to be innovative smartphone with sensor screen. You can see demonstration of Intel Phone in the video below:
By the way, don't You think Intel's phone can be called iPhone too? :)
Usability study group User Centric shows in its study that iPhone's keyboard isn't as well as common QWERTY keyboards. Users on common keyboards make much less mistakes while typing texts or numbers and they are much quicker in typing texts. You can read more about it here.
Some pictures showing the difference between QWERTY keyboards and iPhone's keyboard:
by Matt Hickey
So we know the iPhone is coming, we know it’s slim, we know that if we type the word “iPhone” again, our heads will explode, but what we don’t know is Apple’s plan for carriers. Kevin from Digg said he had knowledge that it would work on all networks. Of course, he also mucked up which technology Sprint uses, so we don’t count that as canon.
We mentioned briefly a couple months ago the idea that Apple might start up its own MVNO, like Helio or Virgin Mobile, to have more control over the total user experience than would be possible under an “unlocked” strategy.
TelecomsKorea agrees with us. In fact, it’s naming Helio as a possible casualty of such a plan, as Helio markets itself towards the same demographic as Apple: Young, hip, and with disposable income, people willing to pay for the lifestyle the brand affords.
While Helio isn’t exactly posting large numbers in the userbase column, we think it would definitely feel the pinch if Apple were to start up an iTunes-based or even .Mac-based network, as most of Helio’s features would be duplicated by Apple, and others (wireless iTunes, for example) would be introduced that couldn’t be easily matched.
At least Helio still has MySpace.
[original post: http://crunchgear.com]
